There’s no right or wrong way to process the events of last weekend. All we hope is that everyone has found at least one person — a friend, a family member, a nice-looking person in a bar — to talk to about what’s happened and let out the feelings that have no doubt welled up.
Below, we hear from guys who’ve turned to Whisper to express how the tragic blow to the community has affected them.
Whatever you’re feeling, you’re not alone:
Dave Downunder
These whisper stories seem meaningless. It’s like somebody comes up with a topic and then goes to whisper and posts a whole bunch of random messages just to create an article.
rjmaquay
Buy a gun. Oh yeah the supposed gay hero Obama wants you defenseless! Listen folks don’t believe the hype just because your gay doesn’t mean you have to be a liberal tool. Conservative gays who believe in self defense and pragmatism are all around us. Don’t lose hope.
Dave Downunder
^^^More like buy a gun because if Trump get’s elected you’ll want to shoot yourself.
mediajky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE64Ge80Su0
crowebobby
According to Trump things would have been very different if there had been armed customers in the Pulse. First of all, there was an armed person: the cop. Second, do we really want people who are heading out for a night of drinking (and whatever else) taking a gun along with them. And third, the odds of anyone hitting the terrorist from more than 20 feet away are practically non-existent; the average person is not going to be putting in that kind of target practice and in the face of what amounts to machine gun fire will likely have very little control over their body.
Daniel-Reader
It’s not Islamophobia people are concerned with. It is Islamofascism (ie. islamists being so immature and sociopathic that they harm people they cannot force their religion preference upon.) No different than Christofascism forcing religious preferences onto human beings. Ultimately, regions that force religious preferences upon human beings cannot be sustained or preserved.
Alistair Wiseman
@crowebobby:
You are showing your ignorance about what guns and their handlers can and cannot do.
DogCollarPistolWhip
Sad sentiments.
The naked truth is that the U.S. is not giving up its guns. There are simply too many of them already. Do we really want to experiment with Islam and gun-ownership as a right?
I’m at a loss with how pro-Islam the Democrats have become. They won’t even talk about it!! There are a dozen or so Islamic countries where they execute gays. For being gay! It is a backward culture and I cannot believe our leadership insists on importing more of them here. We are so screwed…
DCguy
@rjmaquay: stated: “Buy a gun. Oh yeah the supposed gay hero Obama wants you defenseless!”
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There were people there with guns, Trained people, cops. And they guy still killed 49 in a few seconds. The fact that you Log Cabiners keep trying to lie and hide that fact shows your agenda has nothing to do with saving lives.
Oh, and wait a second…hmmmm, you know what could have ALSO helped? If this guy hadn’t been able to buy a weapon that could take out 49 people in a few seconds!
DCguy
@Alistair Wiseman: stated “@crowebobby:
You are showing your ignorance about what guns and their handlers can and cannot do.”
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This is the tactic of the desperate Log Cabiners. They can’t argue against what he said, and they can’t defend their point. So they just sceam, “You’re stupid! You’re wrong!” But don’t detail out why.
Nice try sell outs.
DCguy
@DogCollarPistolWhip: stated :”There are a dozen or so Islamic countries where they execute gays”
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Oh, you left out the Christian Countries that do the exact same thing. Uganda anybody, as well as other Christian countries in Africa. Russia? Half the Caribbean, Jamaica,
Oh, and you left out something else, the REPUBLICAN party here in America has repealing gay rights legislation as part of it’s party platform, and every single Republican candidate for President attacked lgbts.
So what you are doing is trying to get people not to notice how much your party hates and wants to destroy gay rights by yelling loudly about some other country that hates lgbts.
Nice try. You’re like an abusive husband who tells his wife “Hey, you’re lucky, some OTHER husbands kill their wifes”.
Nice try.
rjmaquay
Yes we have such a major problem with Ugandan terrorists in the US. Stop with the false equivalencies.
rjmaquay
@DCguy: you realize it’s not guns that are out to kill gays but islamofascists right? Also it wasn’t an AR 15 that was used right?
onthemark
@Alistair Wiseman: Even the NRA disagrees with you!
onthemark
@Alistair Wiseman: …a pair of NRA officials said Sunday that people shouldn’t be in nightclubs drinking and carrying firearms. “Of course no one thinks that people should go in a nightclub drinking and carrying firearms,” the NRA’s chief lobbyist, Chris Cox, told ABC’s “This Week.” “That defies common sense. It also defies the law.”
scott747
@rjmaquay:
Do you mean all two conservative gays?
DCguy
@rjmaquay: @rjmaquay: “@DCguy: you realize it’s not guns that are out to kill gays but islamofascists right? Also it wasn’t an AR 15 that was used right?”
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If you notice, I NEVER stated what model the rifle was. But in your response you want to pretend I did to try to deflect the argument onto unimportant details to avoid the reality that 49 lgbts were mowed down in about 20 seconds with a legally purchased assault rifle. Nice try.
rjmaquay
@DCguy: Right cause your not just parroting the white house narrative. Right.
Tobi
@DCguy: “Oh, you left out the Christian Countries that do the exact same thing. Uganda anybody, as well as other Christian countries in Africa. Russia? Half the Caribbean, Jamaica.”
These countries might well have oppressive laws, forbid the promotion or even criminalise homosexuality. Hey, I grew up with that same thing, here in the UK. However, none of these countries are proudly and happily endorsing the execution of homosexuals, are they?! If you’re alive you can at least try and fight for change. You can’t do that if you’re dead.
DCguy
@Tobi:
Are you High? Uganda is the country voting on the “Kill the Gays” law. Does nobody here ever watch the news?
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@rjmaquay: stated “@DCguy: Right cause your not just parroting the white house narrative. Right.”
Ok, this might be my favorite sad attempt to change the topic. 1st, you post a response that says “the gun wasn’t an AR-15” even though in my post I never mention the assault rifles model. It is your standard attempt to deflect the conversation onto an irrelevant topic.
So I point out I never said the gun was an AR-15 and THIS is your response? So now TWICE you can’t respond to the reality of a comment, so you paste in your canned responses that Log Cabin gave you in an e-mailed memo and hope that people will read them and not realize that you are just pasting fake responses?
Question, at what point, when you keep lying and making up phony responses do you actually pause for self reflection and think “hmmmm, if I have to lie THIS much…..maybe I’m wrong.”
Keep us updated on that one ok?